Originally Posted by gums
My A-7D had TFR and we could use the e-scope if we wanted, but most had the cross scan mode with basic groundmap on the scope and used the HUD flight path marker to maintain terrain clearance.
For the pure commercial folks here, this was all in the late 60's and early 70's.
As I have expressed on the AF447 thread and others, the inertially-based flight path marker and a HUD allows one to monitor the AP modes and other "magenta line" crapola, and really helps on a non-precision approach to a strange field.The discussion re: dive and drive versus a not very precision constant descent angle to MDA/DA is relevant, and that HUD was very useful regardless of which technique you used.
Thank you gums.
So many lives should have been saved with the right analysis of what piloting is, leading to that 2nd major invention -after the windshield- too long unused .
Last edited by Jetdriver; 23rd Sep 2013 at 00:27.